Resident Apps

Finding the Best PDF Management App for Healthcare Professionals [Part 2]

A look at the best PDF management apps for managing your medical literature library. There are a lot of great apps out there, but here we pick our favorite.

Evidence Central App – Evidence Based Medicine Guidelines Instantly Available in Mobile Form [App Review]

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Review of Evidence Central, an app that gives the user access to a number of respected medical references for up-to-date recommendations.

MedPage Today Mobile App Puts Breaking Medical News in the Palm of Your Hand [App Review]

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Review of MedPage Today Mobile App, which puts the breaking news and commentary of the website as well as the ability to obtain CME credits into the palm of your hand.

iRadiology App Provides Massive Amounts of Radiology Content, and its Free [App Review]

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Review of the iRadiology App, a learning tool with a catalog of over 500 radiology cases designed to help medical students and residents improve their plain film,CT, and MRI reading skills. The cases are derived from Dr. Gillian Lieberman, who is the currently Director of Harvard Medical Student training and Associate Director of the Residency Program at Beth Israel Medical Center. In this review we’ll discuss the application further and also show you how to turn on the “Zoom” feature built into the iPhone that will enable you to improve the utility of this medical app.

Optimizing Your Medical Practice Experience with the iPod Touch

To our readers: We will be providing commentary and short reviews to medpagetoday.com two or three times a month.  We feel honored to be included in their short list of talented and well respected bloggers.  The following is a little clip from our first post titled, Optimizing Your Medical Practice Experience with the iPod Touch. Rest assured, we’ll keep the frequency of our posts and reviews the same on our site. There has been a great deal of commentary profiling [Read more]

FDA Drugs App Provides a Mobile Interface to FDA Drug Approval Data [App Review]

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Review of FDA Drugs App, which provides the usual drug data of other references with the added wrinkly of providing FDA drug approval information as well.

ECG Interpreter App – Does this get our heart beating? [App Review]

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Review of the ECG Interpreter App, a learning tool that provides practice in interpreting a variety of ECG’s.

Three Free Useful iPhone Medical Apps [Recently Released]

The free applications covered in this post include: A Framingham Scale, Drug Trials App, and A Radiology App

Is the Instant ECG App Better Than the ECG Guide for the iPhone? We crown the best ECG app [App Review]

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Comparison of the Instant ECG app verse the ECG guide app. We compare the two most popular ECG apps in the App Store and crown our favorite ECG iphone app.

Need to run a code? There’s an app for that! ACLS Advisor [App Review]

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Review of ACLS Adviser. This app is designed to help you during a code blue, although we think it’s ability to help you practice your ACLS skills might be its biggest asset.

The Merck Manual Professional Edition Medical App is the First Encyclopedia of Medicine that Fits in Your Pocket [App Review]

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This is the professional edition of the Merck Manual app made for healthcare providers. Dr. Wodajo said the following while reviewing the application: “A medical encyclopedia that fits in your pocket”

App Giveaway and Interview With Creator of MD on Call app

MD on Call is a medical app aimed at interns, residents, and 3rd/4th year medical students. It’s a great app geared to help you with those 4am calls you get from nurses and is also a great reference for patient care in general. We did a full review of this app a few days back and were definitely impressed. MD on Call is available for $5.99 in the App Store. The app’s creator, Marc-Emile Plourde was gracious enough to give [Read more]